1930s US NAVY CHINA DUTY PHOTO ALBUM - USS BLACK HAWK
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See the images. This is a loaded 1930's photo album from a sailor who served on the USS Black Hawk, a destroyer tender that operated in China waters from 1922-1942, the U.S.S. Truxan and the U.S.S. Bennion. Full leather cover shows heavy embossed oriental imagery (dragons, junk, pagoda) and legend "IN MEMORY OF MY CHINA CRUISE" around a life ring and anchor, which has "JAPAN - GUAM - PHILIPPINES - CHINA - HAWAII" at the center. Overall album size 11" x 15" with photographs varying in size from 2.5" x 3.5" to 8" x 10". This belonged to Frank Joseph Genaro, who served in the Navy in the 1930's thorough WWII. 350 photos in all with a wide variety of subject matter including images of the ships basketball, swimming, boxing and wrestling teams, boxers/wrestlers showing off their title belts, life at sea including equator crossing ceremonies, ship maneuvers, men at work, etc. Filipino and Chinese ships, Filipino and Chinese architecture, landscapes and landmarks including the Great Wall, men with their animals, sailors having fun on leave, atrocity photos including executions such as the "death of 1000 cuts" (not pictured), color 8 x 10 of the Black Hawk, British soldiers, French ship, native beauties, lots of photos of Japanese "troubles" including combat pics, approx. 30-40 home-front photos of the sailors family, etc. Also included
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